Daisy Chain Book Reviews

I'm thrilled to be taking part in the excerpt blitz for Brenda Drake's Thief of Lies , the first book in the Library Jumpers series! I absolutely love the idea of " jumping" to libraries across the world . Now add in magic, wizards, demons, and cute knights, and you've got a book that's impossible for a girl like me to resist! I'm so g lad there's only a few more weeks to wait to read it . Enjoy the exce r pt from Brenda Drake's Thief of Lies below a nd don't miss adding this YA fantasy to your TBR !   Release Date: January 5, 201 6 Publisher: Entangled Teen Add to Goodreads Amazon.ca | Barnes & Noble | iTunes | Kobo Gia Kearns would rather fight with boys than kiss them. That is, until Arik, a leather clad hottie in the Boston Athenaeum, suddenly disappears. While examining the book of world libraries he abandoned, Gia unwittingly speaks the key that sucks her and her friends into a photograph and transports them into a Paris l...

A 3 night event. 6 hours of television. Arthur C. Clarke's classic science fiction novel Childhood's End has been adapted into an epic new miniseries that will air on Showcase in Canada next week! From Monday, December 14 to Wednesday, December 16 at 8-10 ET / 9-11pm PT, you can find out what happens to Earth when aliens arrive... Here's a bit more information about Childhood's End from Showcase's official website for the new TV show:   Childhood's End follows the peaceful invasion of Earth by the mysterious Overlords, which begins decades of apparent utopia at the cost of human identity and culture. Karellen (Charles Dance), the ambassador for the Overlords, makes first contact with Earthling Ricky Stormgren (Mike Vogel). Karellen’s comforting words and amazing technological gifts quickly win humanity’s favor. However, Karellen’s refusal to reveal his physical appearance and insistence on dealing only through Ricky raises questions whether his inte...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine spotlighting upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating. Release Date: March 8, 2016 Publisher: Roc Add to Goodreads Summary (from Penguin Random House Canada ): For centuries, the Others and humans have lived side by side in uneasy peace. But when humankind oversteps its bounds, the Others will have to decide how much humanity they’re willing to tolerate—both within themselves and within their community... Since the Others allied themselves with the cassandra sangue, the fragile yet powerful human blood prophets who were being exploited by their own kind, the delicate dynamic between humans and Others changed. Some, like Simon Wolfgard, wolf shifter and leader of the Lakeside Courtyard, and blood prophet Meg Corbyn, see the new, closer companionship as beneficial—both personally and practically. But not everyone is convinced. A group of radical humans is seeking to usurp land through a series of viole...

Title: Mercenary Magic (Dragon Born Serafina #1) Author: Ella Summers Release Date: October 13, 2015 Publisher: Ella Summers Pages: 226 Source: Bought Add to Goodreads | Amazon.ca | Barnes & Noble Overall: 5 STARS SUMMARY Long ago, the Dragon Born were hailed as the most powerful mages in the world. Today, they are condemned as abominations and have been hunted to near extinction. Sera Dering has spent her entire life hiding her forbidden magic from the supernatural council who would kill her for the crime of being born. After years of drifting, she’s finally found a new life working as a low-grade mercenary for San Francisco’s oldest monster cleanup guild. She’s safe—as long as she pretends to be human. But a dark and mysterious power is taking control of mages’ minds, and Sera’s guild sends her in to investigate. To save her city from a magical apocalypse, she must work together with a sexy and deadly mage who represents the very council that sentenced the Dragon Born to dea...

Title: An Inheritance of Ashes Author: Leah Bobet Release Date: October 6, 2015 Publisher: Scholastic Canada Pages: 400 Source: ARC received at 4th Ontario Book Blogger Meet-Up courtesy of Scholastic Canada Add to Goodreads | Amazon.ca | Indigo Overall: 3 STARS SUMMARY The strange war down south—with its rumors of gods and monsters—is over. And while sixteen-year-old Hallie and her sister wait to see who will return from the distant battlefield, they struggle to maintain their family farm.  When Hallie hires a veteran to help them, the war comes home in ways no one could have imagined, and soon Hallie is taking dangerous risks—and keeping desperate secrets. But even as she slowly learns more about the war and the men who fought it, ugly truths about Hallie’s own family are emerging. And while monsters and armies are converging on the small farm, the greatest threat to her home may be Hallie herself.    MY THOUGHTS   You won't find a chosen one with magical powers ...

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine spotlighting upcoming releases we're eagerly anticipating. Release Date: March 8, 2016 Publisher: Tundra Books Add to Goodreads Summary (from Penguin Random House Canada ): Gaby thought her life couldn't get more complicated. She's almost used to the idea that she's not the teenage backpacker she thought she was. She can just about cope with being one of the Rephaim--a 139-year-old half-angel--whose memories have been stolen. She's even coming to grips with the fact that Jude, the brother she's mourned for a year, didn't die at all. But now Rafa--sexy, infuriating Rafa--is being held, and hurt, by Gatekeeper demons. And Gaby has to get the bitterly divided Rephaim to work together, or Rafa has no chance at all. I feel like we've been waiting FOREVER to read Paula Weston's Shimmer . Australian readers, you're so lucky you didn't have to practically wait two years to...